TY - CHAP AU - Pei Wen Li AU - Jon Van Lew AU - Wafaa Karaki AU - Cho Lik Chan AU - Jake Stephens AU - James. E. O’Brien ED - Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - Transient Heat Transfer and Energy Transport in Packed Bed Thermal Storage Systems N2 - This book comprises heat transfer fundamental concepts and modes (specifically conduction, convection and radiation), bioheat, entransy theory development, micro heat transfer, high temperature applications, turbulent shear flows, mass transfer, heat pipes, design optimization, medical therapies, fiber-optics, heat transfer in surfactant solutions, landmine detection, heat exchangers, radiant floor, packed bed thermal storage systems, inverse space marching method, heat transfer in short slot ducts, freezing an drying mechanisms, variable property effects in heat transfer, heat transfer in electronics and process industries, fission-track thermochronology, combustion, heat transfer in liquid metal flows, human comfort in underground mining, heat transfer on electrical discharge machining and mixing convection. The experimental and theoretical investigations, assessment and enhancement techniques illustrated here aspire to be useful for many researchers, scientists, engineers and graduate students. BT - Developments in Heat Transfer SP - Ch. 20 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/20979 DO - 10.5772/20979 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-11 ER -